Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller

This beautifully written study focuses on the life and public sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), one of the early twentieth century's few African American women artists. To understand Fuller's strategy for negotiating race, history, and visual representation, Ren e Ater examines the artist's contributions to three early twentieth-century expositions: the Warwick Tableaux, a set of dioramas for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition (1907); Emancipation, a freestanding group for the National Emancipation Exposition (1913); and Ethiopia, the figure of a single female for the America's Making Exposition (1921). Ater argues that Fuller's efforts to represent black identity in art provide a window on the Progressive Era and its heated debates about race, national identity, and culture.

Author: Renée Ater
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11/22/2011
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.10h x 6.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780520262126
About the Author
Renée Ater is Associate Professor of American Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the author of Keith Morrison.